Friendly ghosts

1:06 AM,
Oct. 11, 2012

The spirits of Sophie Simms and Michel Prudhomme come out for a visit as the sun goes down Wednesday afternoon in the St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery. The spirits are portrayed by Sheryl Ned and James Douget.

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St. Landry Parish Catholic Church's cemetery tours will celebrate the 200th birthday of Louisiana with a number of friendly ghosts this weekend and next.

The cemetery tours, which help raise money to restore abandoned graves in the church's historic cemetery, will be held at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $10 each.

"It is going to be awesome. This year's stories are out of this world. I think this will be our best tour ever," said Dana Reed with the Opelousas Little Theatre, which supplies actors to portray the majority of the spirits. ...